Cyburbia takes on the holiday children's specials

Originally posted by Maister

Listen up everyone associated with the world of commerce......it's December 1st. That means that it's okay NOW to start broadcasting your Christmas music, putting your holiday decorations and displays up, and airing your Santa riding an electric razor commercials. Don't let me catch you jumping the gun by doing any of the above the day after Halloween ever again. I hope I've made myself crystal clear. Otherwise, there'll be hell to pay next year. Grrrr. [/sufficient intimidation]

Both Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and How the Grinch Stole Christmas were on TV last night - and it was still November!

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Last edited by Maister; 01 Dec 2010 at 4:41 PM.

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I feel bad for you dandy. Tell you what, since you didn't get to see both I'll tell you now how they both ended

The Grinch comes to understand the True Meaning of Christmas and turns out to be an all-round swell guy....and Rudolph, you know how he had that strange glowing nose? Turns out that liability was actually an asset when he ended up guiding Santa's sleigh on a foggy Xmas eve. In fact, he went down in history because of it!

Me, I was always partial to Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Dealt with the origins of Santa (the myth) and unlike many of the other classic holiday specials, this one featured a rockin' 'contemporary' (sure, it sounds horribly dated now) soundtrack complete with 1970 hallucinogenic-style animation to accompany the future Ms. Claus' own musical number.

Me, I was always partial to Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Dealt with the origins of Santa (the myth) and unlike many of the other classic holiday specials, this one featured a rockin' 'contemporary' (sure, it sounds horribly dated now) soundtrack complete with 1970 hallucinogenic-style animation to accompany the future Ms. Claus' own musical number.

The Burgher-Maister-Maister-Burgher. Ha! Either I am goingk or the toys are goingk, and I am not goingk!

Regarding holiday children's specials, I look forward to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the Charlie Brown Christmas the most. The rest, I could care less.

However, there is a much bigger selection of holiday movies I have to see this time of year, every year: Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Christmas Vacation, The Santa Clause, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Inn, and White Christmas.

A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Frosty the Snowman
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
The Santa Clause
Home Alone

And I watch them at my leisure. Back when I was a kid and young adult, I was a slave to the t.v. and sometimes missed THE ONE SHOWING A YEAR when I had something I couldn't get out of, like doing lighting for a h.s. play, and then I missed it for a whole year! Well, back then it was just a few of the above. Before cable, before VHS players, before netflix....

One more reason Thanksgiving gets overlooked/hosed is that there really isn't an iconic animated children's special associated with the holiday (sure, there's Peanuts Thanksgiving but as with so many other things in the Halloween/Thanksgiving/Xmas holiday triumvirate this special is greatly overshadowed by the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas institutions)

One more reason Thanksgiving gets overlooked/hosed is that there really isn't an iconic animated children's special associated with the holiday (sure, there's Peanuts Thanksgiving but as with so many other things in the Halloween/Thanksgiving/Xmas holiday triumvirate this special is greatly overshadowed by the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas institutions)

Thanksgiving is the time for the Macy*s parade to start it all out (anyone getting their photos taken there? ) fpllowed by the NFL (Packers at Lions).

BTW, I'll have to see if my favorite sports bar will be having a good turkey wing special for the late game!

Also, is anyone going to be answering their really, really early reveille for the Black Friday™ shopping maneuvers?

Re: Maister's comment on lack of Thanksgiving specials: Some networks use to run The Mouse and the Mayflower back in the 80's when I was little(er); not iconic, but better than nothing. And there were dozens of Peanuts specials, most of which I've never seen or heard of.

Re: Maister's comment on lack of Thanksgiving specials: Some networks use to run The Mouse and the Mayflower back in the 80's when I was little(er); not iconic, but better than nothing.

I've been scrounging around Amazon and other places to score a VHS or DVD copy of The Mouse and the Mayflower. I have found a few but they are prohibitively expensive! I do, however, own Peanuts Thanksgiving now, and also pirated obtained a copy of 'William Bradford and the First Thanksgiving'. I thought Junior might be a little young to appreciate it, but he seemed to like it.

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor